Police in Britain investiga-ting the murder of Sabina Nessa, a 28-year-old British-Bangladeshi teacher who was found dead in a southeast London park last weekend, said they arrested a 38-year-old man yesterday.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison refused to commit to phasing out fossil fuels as a major climate conference approaches, while his deputy doubled down on opposing targets for net zero emissions of greenhouse gases.

In a first in Europe, women hold more than half of the seats in Iceland’s new parliament, final election results showed yesterday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called Saturday on the United States to take a more active approach to help resume stalled talks aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal.

The situation in the Taiwan Strait is “complex and grim”, Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday wrote in a congratulatory letter to the newly elected leader of Taiwan’s main opposition party, who has pledged to renew talks with Beijing.

Germans went to the polls on Sunday in a national election too close to call, with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) mounting a strong challenge to retiring Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives.

At least three people were killed Saturday afternoon when an Amtrak train that runs between Seattle and Chicago derailed in north-central Montana, toppling several cars onto their sides, authorities said.

Hundreds of people gathered in southeast London on Friday night at a vigil for Sabina Nessa, a 28-year-old British-Bangladeshi teacher who was found dead in a park, the latest case to spark public concern about women’s safety.

“Are we related?” US President Joe Biden asked India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi when they met at the White House on Friday. “Yes!” Modi joked in reply.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday backed a booster shot of the Pfizer /BioNTech Covid-19

Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday urged Germans to give her would-be successor Armin Laschet the vote to shape Germany’s

Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas gave Israel one year to withdraw from occupied territory Friday or he said he would no long recognize the Jewish state based on pre-1967 borders.

Leaders of the United States, Japan, India and Australia vowed on Friday to pursue a free and open Indo-Pacific region “undaunted by coercion” at their first in-person summit, which presented a united front amid shared concerns about China.

Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday urged Germans to give her would-be successor Armin Laschet the vote to shape Germany's future, in a last-ditch push to shore up his beleaguered campaign 24 hours before Germans vote. All throughout his campaign, the conservative candidate had to build up popularity to face his left-wing opponent Olaf Scholz.

A suicide car bomb killed at least seven people in the Somali capital on Saturday at a street junction near the president's residence, an official said.

President Joe Biden yesterday deepened his bid to cement US leadership of the Indo-Pacific against a rising China with the first in-person summit of the regional Quad group.

The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un yesterday said it was “admirable” of the South to propose a formal end to the Korean War but demanded Seoul first drop its “hostile policies” towards Pyongyang.

A power blackout briefly hit Myanmar’s main urban centres and far-flung towns yesterday, including commercial hub Yangon and parts of the capital Naypyidaw, authorities and AFP correspondents said.

Five climbers died after a blizzard on Mount Elbrus, Russia’s emergencies ministry said yesterday, in one of the worst tragedies in recent years on Europe’s highest peak.

Britain yesterday sought to turn a page with France after a cross-continental diplomatic crisis centred on alleged perfidy over a submarine contract with Australia.